we always thought
Jasper’s occupation was clandestine
He works in Chicago and Miamai
where gangsters work, right?
So is he a mobster?
He dresses like one, all in black.
We dared not ask him what he did for a living.
Having no idea he was in commodities
Legal gambling for the affluent.
Categories:
jaspers, addiction,
Form: Prose Poetry
Blue
twinges
of lament
cast gaunt shadow
o’er my dreadful pang
as a grim mist segued
into dark claustrophobic
cantons where rabid zeal of hearts
once smouldered from magma’s deep red vein
Yet I cling to golden dawn recall
of lazy strolls in lush green mead
wild sniff of purple heather
neath sun-drenched sky aflame
gusts of joy rippling
froth-rim brook waltz
now toilworn
gaudy
dream
Haze
born of
mellow flight
as hunches splay
across foamed pool morn
plop of jaspers echo
icy shriek as chalk mark toe
dips into a whirlpool eddy
to soothe stark reflections so forlorn
Those august palpitating heartbeats
etched in vivid ripple canvass
entwined that fleeting pearl drop
bead keen ink glint token
a pledge once fervent
now rose tinted
phase on brink
of times
lapsed
Categories:
jaspers, age, august, deep, feelings,
Form: Nonet
Tranquility is
Amethyst skies
And
Lapis seas
Sprinkled
With
Diamond dust.
Jade fields of
Topaz and malachite
Dancing
In the
Suns rays.
Agate gardens
Filled with
Swirling
Flower colors.
Amazonite grapes
Filled with
Liquid
Crystal juice.
Deserts of jaspers
And
Agates
Of all races.
4-8-2021
ALL YOURS (APR 9) Poetry Contest
Brian Strand
Categories:
jaspers, appreciation, earth, environment, nature,
Form: Free verse
Jaspers are a gifted lot;
they mimic many things.
From poppies to a leopard’s spots,
their pictures really sing.
It weighs much less than many stones;
in it you’ll see colored fissures,
holding abstract stories, all homegrown;
such lovely artsy mixtures.
Categories:
jaspers, appreciation, color, earth, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Jackolantern
Jaws she blows tricks and treats
just the sweetest pumpkin,
jamming to candle light,
jaspers and goblins flight.
Jumping Jack's and Jills find,
jeweled cutouts divine,
jostling for lantern's glow.
3/4/17
Categories:
jaspers, children, halloween,
Form: Verse
jackie-o'-lantern
jaws she blows tricks and treats
just the sweetest pumpkin,
jamming to candle light,
jaspers and goblins flight.
jumping jack's finds her door,
jeweled cutouts divine,
jostling to dip her treats.
3/4/17
Categories:
jaspers, halloween, sensual,
Form: Verse
I am from solemn, vagrant, forgotten; from paper and cloth.
I am from the Wheatland.
A derelict gerdner, no longer tending the bud.
I am from Nietzsche and Jaspers,
from Mother and Father and Daughter.
From nonsensical and ecoteric voice and curiostiy;
The questions unanswered.
I am from no where, wheat and rye.
From the past; the scent and the soft hum dissapating into the never ending ether.
I am from no where.
Categories:
jaspers, childhood
Form: Free verse